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Vermont’s Amendments to Data Breach Law and New Student Privacy Law Effective July 1, 2020

Hunton Privacy

The amendments to Vermont’s Security Breach Notice Act include expanding the definition of Personally Identifiable Information (“PII”), expanding the definition of a breach to include login credentials and narrowing the permissible circumstances under which substitute notice may be used.

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What is personal information under the CCPA?

Collibra

The CCPA maintains a broad definition of “personal information” or PI, referring to it as “information that identifies, relates to, describes, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household.”. What is personal information? Biometric information.

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Executive Order on access to Americans’ bulk sensitive data and Attorney General proposed regulations – Part 2

Data Protection Report

The proposed definition of “listed identifier” is Full or truncated government identification or account number (such as a Social Security Number, driver’s license or state identification number, passport number, or Alien Registration Number) [Note that this definition apparently includes truncated Social Security Numbers.]

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 4 – 10 March 2024

IT Governance

Only 3 definitely haven’t had data breached. Source (New) Finance USA Yes 3,494 Woodruff Sawyer Source (New) Insurance USA Yes 3,087 Blackburn College Source (New) Education USA Yes 3,039 CAIRE Inc. 92 of them are known to have had data exfiltrated, exposed or otherwise breached. Organisation(s) Sector Location Data breached?

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 15 – 21 January 2024

IT Governance

Only 1 definitely hasn’t had data breached. Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: full list This week, we’ve found 130,036,285 records known to be compromised, and 116 organisations suffering a newly disclosed incident. 96 of them are known to have had data exfiltrated, exposed or otherwise breached.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 15 – 21 April 2024

IT Governance

Mobile Guardian, which is used to help parents manage their children’s device usage, was hacked on 19 April, according to the Singaporean Ministry of Education. Only 5 definitely haven’t had data breached. 226 of them are known to have had data exfiltrated, exposed or otherwise breached. Organisation(s) Sector Location Data breached?

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 1 – 7 April 2024

IT Governance

Only 2 definitely haven’t had data breached. Germany to launch cyber military branch to combat Russian cyber aggression As part of a military restructuring programme, Germany will introduce a fourth independent branch of its armed forces – the German Cyber and Information Domain Service.